Clothes hanger



1961 H. ULLERY 3,008,614

CLOTHES HANGER Filed May 15, 1959 Fza.2

INVENTOR. /4 HAROLD L.ULL.ERY 11 Fatented Nov. 14, 1961 3,008,614 CLOTHES HANGER Harold L. Ullery, Kansas City, Mo., assignor of ten percent to Gadget-Of-The-Month Club, Inc., North Hollywood, Calif., a corporation of California Filed May 15, 1959, Ser. No. 813,502 2 Claims. (Cl. 223-88) -means automatically and releasably locking it upon a supporting pole which will remain in locked sliding engagement therewith until manually released.

Other objects of the present invention are to provide an improvement in clothes hanger bearing the above objects in mind which is of simple construction, has a minimum number of parts, is inexpensive to manufacture, and etficient in operation.

For other objects and for a better understanding of the invention, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which:

FIGURE 1 is a side elevational view of an improved clothes hanger made in accordance with the present invention in actual use;

FIGURE 2 is an end elevational view of the assembly shown in FIGURE 1.

Referring now more in detail to the drawing, an improved clothes hanger made in accordance with the present invention is shown to include a pair of pivotally connected arms 12, each of which is provided with an angularly related and overlapping horizontal trouser support arm 14, integrally connected to one outer end thereof by means of rivets or fasteners 16. The opposite end of each of the arms 12 is provided with an angularly upwardly extending extension 20 having a terminal portion 22 defining the hook 24. Both such arms 12 are pivotally connected together adjacent the juncture with the angularly upwardly extending portions 20 by means of a pivot pin or rivet 18.

While the angularly extending portions 20 of the arms 12 may be rotated outwardly toward an open position, the inward rotational movement thereof is limited by a stop pin 28 carried upon one of the extension portions 20 that is received within an indent 30 of the other such angularly extending portion 20, thus limiting the rotation of these portions in one direction.

The uppermost extremities of the angularly related portions 20 are provided with downwardly converging cam surfaces 32 which slidably direct a horizontal support pole 26 inwardly to the central hook portion 24 defined by the hook elements 22, also causing the arms to rotate outwardly toward an open position as an upward force directed upon the hanger is used to apply it to the support pole 26. The trousers carried upon the coextensive arms 14 do not interfere with the operation of the hanger, and the stop pin 28 further prevents the arm portions from binding upon the support pole 26, thus assuring that the hanger may be slidably moved along the length of the pole 26 at any time.

An upward force is exerted upon the ends or central portions of the trouser support arms 14 in order to either assemble or dismount the hanger with respect to the horizontal support pole 26, thus any downward load or force upon the hanger will fail to dislodge the hanger from the support pole, thus preventing the hanger from accidentally being displaced from the supporting pole.

While various changes may be made in the detail construction, it shall be understood that such changes shall be within the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.

What I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A clothes hanger comprising: a first bell crank means including a left outwardly projecting arm having a right inner end and a left outer free end and including a vertically upwardly projecting right pole-engaging element carried by said right inner end; a second bell crank means including a right outwardly projecting arm having a left inner end, a right outer free end and including a vertically upwardly projecting left pole-engaging element carried by said left inner end; pivot pin means effectively pivotally connecting said right and left inner ends of said left and right arms, respectively, with said right poleengaging element carried by said right inner end of said left arm being positioned to the right of and in gravity biased opposition to the left pole-engaging element carried by the left end of the right arm, said right and left pole-engaging elements being of similar shape and configuration and each comprising an oppositely and inwardly directed hook portion defining a pole-receiving cut out therebetween normally vertically closed in response to the action of gravity upon the left and right arms extending outwardly from the pivot pin means, said polereceiving cut out being adapted for releasably receiving a transverse supporting pole therewithin when said left poleengaging element is pivoted in counterclockwise direction as a result of lifting force applied to said right arm and when said right pole-engaging element is pivoted in clock- Wise direction as a result of lifting force applied to said left arm, each of said pole-engaging elements including downwardly and inwardly sloped upper cam surfaces in vtegral with the uppermost ends of said pole-engaging elements, said cam surfaces vertically centrally downwardly converging and extending centrally downwardly to said pole-receiving cut out defined between said hook portions;

and stop means carried by the pole-engaging elements and preventing pivotal movement thereof beyond a point where said upper cam surfaces are spaced apart in a position for upwardly forced cammed engagement with a transverse supporting pole, whereby to be forcibly opened thereby to receive the supporting pole within the polereceiving cut out.

2. The combination according to claim 1 including trouser support means carried at the outer free end of each of said arms and comprising a pair of similar in- I wardly directed arm portions having outer ends integrally connected to the corresponding outer free ends of said arms and having inner ends overlapping each other.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,914,840 Wolff June 20, 1933 1,973,376 Freedman Sept. 11, 1934 2,500,729 Winnemore Mar. 14, 1950 2,558,910 Peacock July 3, 1951 2,637,472 Lyons May 5, 1953 2,656,078 Ambrosino Oct. 20, 1953 2,889,095 Heidecke et a1 June 2, 1959 

